tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post3364321508849186660..comments2011-04-27T09:37:58.365-07:00Comments on Literature and the Contemporary: Don Quixote & Perception inside of House of Leaves.Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-33608959228252835842011-04-16T11:21:10.557-07:002011-04-16T11:21:10.557-07:00I&#39;m going to focus on both the danger you skir...I&#39;m going to focus on both the danger you skirt (at least) here, and on your greatest strength.<br /><br />The best moment in the essay is when you make the odd (at least to me) but perceptive (maybe because I&#39;d never thought it through carefully) observation of what the term &quot;layman&quot; means - it would seem to be denigrating, and yet it is paired with &quot;ingenious.&quot; It&#39;s very odd, and you are headed in interesting directions with it.<br /><br />The flip side is that your discussion of bias, while by no means wrong, seems a little vague to me. I would have loved it, for instance, if you were more specific about some of the biases in Borges or Danielewski (either of character or of author) - thus, your specific discussion of the passage is great, but the essay as a whole tends toward vagueness.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-78939870814967913092011-04-16T11:03:58.241-07:002011-04-16T11:03:58.241-07:00I think you had a good idea with connecting the wr...I think you had a good idea with connecting the writings to perception, I would agree with you there. However you havent answered the how. you answered the why, why the labyrinth changes is due to perception and yes, it is much like Borges Cevrantes but how are we supposed to read into this perception of the labyrinth in conjunction with these authors?.. I hope I am being clear, but the prompt was to also explain how to read a section with the new thoughts/insight derived from the Brorges passage. So in the end it could state something along the lines of &quot;One of the major elements in which the hallway changes in perception depending on who is perceiving is based off of the differences between Menards and Cervantes&#39; works.&quot; or maybe something else. maybe that we had previously been introduced to this concept of perception as a reader, it is easier to take in later..but even thats more of a why.<br />a how would be, because of cervantes and borges we as readers are supposed to connect to this idea of perception and realize that it is all based on the writing yet, maybe everyone did see the same thing, but told about it differently.. or maybe danielewskis (zampanos) perception of these characters is still biased in comparison f the truth.. <br />otherwise I love your organization/flow, its a little short but much to the point.Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14210637014674480487noreply@blogger.com